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New Bond: I hate guns
This is London.com ^ | 10/25/2005 | This is London

Posted on 10/25/2005 1:34:55 PM PDT by kerryusama04

Daniel Craig will have a problem playing the new James Bond - because he hates guns.

The actor will wield 007's famous Walther PPK in the movie Casino Royale.

But he revealed in OK! magazine: "I hate handguns. Handguns are used to shoot people and as long as they are around, people will shoot each other.

"That's a simple fact. I've seen a bullet wound and it was a mess. It was on a shoot and it scared me. Bullets have a nasty habit of finding their target and that's what's scary about them."

Nor does the 37-year-old share Bond's love of Martinis shaken and stirred.

"I love a Martini straight up. I don't think anybody makes a Martini stirred any more," he said.

Craig was unveiled earlier this month as the successor to Pierce Brosnan. He will play a tougher, grittier 007 in Casino Royale, which is based on Ian Fleming's first Bond book.

The movie is due for release in November next year.

Craig is not the first Bond to reveal a hatred of guns.

Roger Moore, who played the superspy from 1973 to 1985, said after quitting the role that he hated "that awful pose" of Bond with his gun which has become an iconic movie image.

The actor later became an ambassador for children's charity Unicef and declared: "Today I am completely opposed to small arms and what they can do to children. I played every role tongue-in-cheek because I don't really believe in that sort of hero. I don't like guns."


TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: banglist; bigpuss; bond; guns; hollywoodleft; hypocrite; jamesbond; limpwrist; pc; poofter; pussygalore; smokepole
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To: kerryusama04
"Bullets have a nasty habit of finding their target and that's what's scary about them."

That's called GUN CONTROL...idiot!!!

61 posted on 10/25/2005 2:02:38 PM PDT by Osage Orange (Hillary's heart is blacker than the devil's riding boots......................)
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To: kerryusama04
Handguns are used to shoot people and as long as they are around, people will shoot each other.

Stuck on stupid

62 posted on 10/25/2005 2:03:55 PM PDT by apackof2 (There's two theories to arguin' with a woman. Neither one works. Will Rogers)
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To: Bird Jenkins
New Bond: I hate the guns, I hate the womanizing... but the clothes are FAAAABULUOS!

LOL! Thanks for the grins.

63 posted on 10/25/2005 2:04:07 PM PDT by AHerald ("Truth is not determined by majority vote." - Cardinal Ratzinger)
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To: kerryusama04
It was on a shoot and it scared me. Bullets have a nasty habit of finding their target and that's what's scary about them."

Is him scarded? poor widdle boy..James Bond? NOT!!! A kitty cat can not masquerade as a Bulldog..no suspension of disbelief is possible.

64 posted on 10/25/2005 2:06:49 PM PDT by Iron Matron
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To: kerryusama04

Not to worry, Bond's guns aren't real guns, they're fashion accessories.


65 posted on 10/25/2005 2:07:34 PM PDT by Grut
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To: kAcknor
New Bond: I hate guns Oh yea, this makes me all excited and willing to see the new Bond movies. I'm just giddy with anticipation I tell ya! /SARC

Reminds me of when the producers set up a photo op for George Lazenby ("On Her Majesty's Secret Service"). Aussie Lazenby dissed his co-star, Diana Rigg and showed reporters what he didn't have on under the kilt he was wearing.

66 posted on 10/25/2005 2:08:17 PM PDT by pawdoggie
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To: kerryusama04

Seems odd to me how the hollywood types love to make money from their violent movies, and denounce us peaceful law abiding gun owners.


67 posted on 10/25/2005 2:09:44 PM PDT by spookadelic
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To: kerryusama04

And thus shall his movie fail. hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha, and just for good measure, ha.


68 posted on 10/25/2005 2:10:16 PM PDT by AD from SpringBay (We have the government we allow and deserve.)
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To: kerryusama04
new Bond, Daniel Craig, to paying public: Do you expect me to LIKE carrying a scary stage-prop handgun?

Paying public: No, Mr. Craig, we expect you to BOMB.

Then again, the best Bond, Sean Connery, is a gun-hating, left-wing maggot too, if memory serves.

69 posted on 10/25/2005 2:12:44 PM PDT by DocH (Gun-grabbers, you can HAVE my guns... lead first.)
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To: Yo-Yo

James Bond v. `Dr. Strangelove'?
Not sticking around to see who winds up on top . . .


70 posted on 10/25/2005 2:16:13 PM PDT by tumblindice
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To: pawdoggie
ussie Lazenby dissed his co-star, Diana Rigg and showed reporters what he didn't have on under the kilt

Good thing I'm done with my coffee today. ;)

Given the social mores and political environment of the times, then and now, it's a very good comparison!

71 posted on 10/25/2005 2:18:33 PM PDT by kAcknor (Don't flatter yourself.... It is a gun in my pocket.)
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To: pawdoggie
And with that stunt came the end of Lazenby.

I thought he was cool in "On Her Majesty's Secret Service."

72 posted on 10/25/2005 2:20:30 PM PDT by JOE6PAK (Make somebody happy. Mind your own business.)
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To: kerryusama04

And he doesn't smoke, and instead of seducing sexy female double agents, now he seduces sexy male double agents.

Hello, my name is Bond. Jimmy Bond.


73 posted on 10/25/2005 2:21:31 PM PDT by swarthyguy
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To: DocH
Then again, the best Bond, Sean Connery, is a gun-hating, left-wing maggot too, if memory serves.

So? Did he flaunt those views while playing the role?

I don't much care what they think. it's a free country and I put in my time trying to keep it that way.

The whole point is the business and political stupidity of alienating a very large and real chunk of your audience before you even make the picture!

74 posted on 10/25/2005 2:23:21 PM PDT by kAcknor (Don't flatter yourself.... It is a gun in my pocket.)
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To: kerryusama04

Bring the 80 year old Sean Connery out of retirement. He's got more manhood in his little toe than this flippin pantywaist will ever have.


75 posted on 10/25/2005 2:23:21 PM PDT by pissant
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To: All
"Today I am completely opposed to small arms and what they can do to children. I played every role tongue-in-cheek because I don't really believe in that sort of hero. I don't like guns."

But I took the money anyway...

- Roger Moore

76 posted on 10/25/2005 2:39:20 PM PDT by BFM
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To: geopyg

No women?


77 posted on 10/25/2005 2:40:27 PM PDT by Fee (`+Great powers never let minor allies dictate who, where and when they must fight.)
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To: kerryusama04
Martinis are to be shaken, not stirred. Who on earth would shake and stir a Martini?
78 posted on 10/25/2005 2:42:18 PM PDT by bondjamesbond (As a good Jihadi tells his son: Remember, the red wire must never shake hands with the green wire..)
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To: DocH

The most recent "real" James Bond film wasn't even a Bond film. The first XXX with Vin Diesel reminded me of the old Sean Connery Bond, played straight with just a hint of "wink, wink...aren't these explosions and props cool"!

All the recent Bonds have been wimps. I would watch out for Sean Connery in a bar fight, he might crack a poolstick over you from behind. Moore, Dalton, Remmington Steele Bonds would run out and cry for help.


79 posted on 10/25/2005 2:50:11 PM PDT by LolaBelle
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To: kerryusama04
Eeew.

I'd rather have Brosnan and his combover.

80 posted on 10/25/2005 2:50:16 PM PDT by Mamzelle (.)
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